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Article: Arms dealer in missiles sting ordered held without bail.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- August 14, 2003
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Byline: John Shiffman and Stephen Henderson
NEWARK, N.J. _ A London-based arms dealer was arraigned Wednesday on charges that he allegedly tried to sell a shoulder-fired Russian anti-aircraft missile on U.S. soil to an agent for a group that he believed would use it against a U.S. commercial plane.
Hemant Lakhani's buyer was an FBI informant, however, and Russian counter-terrorism investigators posing as weapons suppliers disarmed the sophisticated SA-18 Igla surface-to-air missile before shipping it to the United States.
"Today, the good guys won a battle," said Christopher Christie, the U.S. Attorney for New Jersey. "The terrorists who have ...